II. Enlightened Government and its Critics in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geraint Parry (0000-0001-7791-5688, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-192 |
| Publication date | 1963-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00001059 |
| OpenAlex | W2126870324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 3 |
The debates between ‘rationalism’ and ‘traditionalism’ and between ‘organization’ and ‘community’ 1 which are such a striking feature of contemporary political thought may be traced back in their modern form to the eighteenth century. Men like Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Bolingbroke, Hume, Bentham and Burke recognized the relevance of these debates to theory and practice and they attempted to link the issues by exploring the conceptual and practical connexions between rationalist politics and the theory of community. The problems were not, of course, discussed in either an intellectual or a political vacuum. The intellectual context was produced by the impact of the discoveries of natural science on social investigation. Students of social affairs hoped to discover behind the apparent diversity and complexity of actual societies a framework of uniform, consistent and, above all, predictable rules which would be analogous to the laws of the planetary system
Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Humanities · Intellectual history · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Rationalism · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · Traditionalism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
The Art of the State
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
The eighteenth century antecedents of bureaucracy, the Cameralists
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Social contract theory and its critics
The comparative study of regimes and societies
Tackling Iaroslav Hrytsak’s Magnum Opus Fifteen Years On
Frederick the Great on Government and Public Administration
Keys for Locks in Administrative Argument
A text of two titles
De‐Sir Humphreyfying the Westminster Model of Bureaucracy
Christian Thomasius
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1965 - 2023 (59) |
| Highly cited | No |